Morbius

Medical genius Dr Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is slowly dying from a blood disorder. In search of a cure, funded by childhood friend Milo (Matt Smith) and ...

His superspeed is signified by a trailing haze around him, which doesn’t entirely work, but the use of slow-mo to pick moments out of the hectic set-pieces is effective — an extended fight and flight through a subway station being a particular standout. It’s saying something when your most grounded performance in years is as a superhuman vampire, but that is strangely true of Jared Leto, here finding a quiet sincerity that’s far less showy than the distracting accents ( House Of Gucci) and messianic tendencies ( WeCrashed) of more recent roles. Unlike the hapless Eddie Brock, the other anti-hero of a franchise once unfortunately named the Sony Pictures Universe Of Marvel Characters (or ‘SPUMC’), Dr Michael Morbius is actively looking for his superpower.

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We see Daily Bugle headlines referencing the likes of Chameleon and Rhino, while we also know that Venom exists in this universe. After Strange's spell, Toomes now probably doesn't know that Spider-Man is Peter Parker, so he might have forgotten the good he did and just remembers it was Spidey's fault he was in prison. Toomes didn't bring it over with him and in Homecoming, it was revealed he made it out of alien tech left over from various Avengers battles. Somehow, this event led to Toomes being transported out of the MCU and into the same universe as Morbius and Venom. Toomes is released as expected, and the second credit scene sees Dr Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) meet Toomes, who is now in full Vulture gear. There are a couple of things that could cause confusion with this scene, starting with the Vulture get-up.

Morbius post-credits scenes teased Spider-Man and Venom universe with appearance from Michael Keaton's Adrian Toomes after bad reviews.

I’m still figuring this place out but I still think a bunch of guys like us should team up — we could do some good.’ It seems to refer back to the No Way Home post-credits scene, which showed Venom (Tom Hardy) getting sent back to the Sony universe as a result of Doctor Strange’s botched spell for Spider-Man (Tom Holland) in the main film. The new film stars Jared Leto as Michael Morbius, a biochemist who is fighting to find a cure for his rare blood disease.

This is the origin story of one of Spider-Man's foes, a blood-sucking anti-hero/villain who started appearing in Marvel comic books in 1971. The film was meant ...

A mid-credits scene, involving Michael Keaton as Adrian Toomes/Vulture (last seen in the Sony/MCU collaboration, Spider-Man: Homecoming), is the final insult. Fans love it when the SSU and MCU collide. Morbius also has a buff chest and a tan. We get flashbacks to Michael’s youth and his friendship with fellow invalid, Lucius/Milo. Back in modern-day New York, Morbius is still in touch with Lucius/Milo (Matt Smith), now a peevish Mockney who not only funds his old pal’s research, but seems to have a crush on him. This is the origin story of one of Spider-Man’s foes, a blood-sucking anti-hero/villain who started appearing in Marvel comic books in 1971. Morbius takes the serum and suddenly looks like a 90s pop star. Even the gorgeous Smith, lively at first, runs out of steam. He’ll make a serum that mixes his DNA with that of a vampire bat. One death aside, Morbius the movie isn’t scary or tense. Just to be clear, neither Maguire, Garfield or Tom Holland are in this stinking mess of an “adventure” which is a relief. He wants to cure himself - along with lots of wide-eyed, bed-bound kids - of a rare blood disorder. At the start of the movie, sickly scientist Dr Michael Morbius ( Jared Leto) is in Costa Rica, bonding with bats.

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But what does feel distinct to Morbius as a movie is the degree to which it’s willing to depict disabled people as frail, weak victims whose entire lives are defined in relation to the able-bodied. The implication, of course, being that Sony’s not through yet. In another universe, Morbius would dig a bit deeper into what might have been an interesting premise: the eccentric founder of a synthetic blood company becomes a pseudo-vampire who also moonlights as a superhero. But in this universe, the movie opts for the road more traveled — one paved with flashy VFX, opaque character motivations, and a climactic action sequence that plays like an overlong quick time event. Morbius doesn’t really try to detail how bat DNA is supposed to factor into Morbius’ condition or explain how he manages to transport hundreds of bats back to his laboratory after willingly walking into a swarm of them in the dramatic scene from the movie’s trailers. Morbius dives headfirst into the already-in-progress origin story of its titular ghoul, Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), a brilliant scientist and lifelong sufferer of a chronic blood disorder.

Jared Leto bares his teeth as a neo-vampire who walks by day and tries to keep his monstrous thirst at bay in the latest Marvel adaptation.

And while most of it is as predictably familiar as expected, it does something unusual for a movie like this: It entertains you, rather than bludgeons you into submission. Leto’s history of needless showboating (as in that wreck “ House of Gucci”) may not have boded well, but he fits the role and delivers an actual performance, not just shtick and brooding poses. One of the revelations of “Morbius” — the latest movie to take a marginal Marvel character out of mothballs for his blockbuster close-up — is that regular blood smoothies do wonders for the skin. Milo grows up to become a louche moneybags played by Matt Smith, who’s best known for playing Prince Philip in “The Crown,” a bit of casting history that gives his role here amusing tang. After a leisurely flashback to his sad childhood, Morbius is back in his New York lab, experimenting and knitting brows alongside a colleague, Monica (Adria Arjona). It also runs under two hours, i.e., a full hour less than that recent slugfest “ The Batman.” I mean, what’s not to like?

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By the way, neither of these credits scenes are the Morbius-Toomes encounter from the January 2020 trailer, which showed them meeting as they passed in an alley (with Keaton delivering the “What’s up, doc?” line). That scene is not in the current film. Then Toomes (Keaton) finds himself in a prison cell in the continuity of “Morbius,” followed by news reports that he’s sure to be released after having just appeared out of nowhere. Toomes, in his full Vulture armor — including the mask that could conveniently excuse Keaton from filming, I’m just saying — shows up, thanks Morbius for meeting him and says they should band together to “do some good.” In the first scene, we see the familiar multiverse rift from “No Way Home” over the New York skyline. Now the MCU’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” multiverse fracture has thrown open the doors for pretty much any Spidey villain to wind up in the Six. If there can be said to be a classic Sinister Six lineup, it would include Doctor Octopus, the Vulture, Electro, Kraven, Mysterio and Sandman.

Morbius is certified rotten on Rotten Tomatoes following the publication of critics' reviews for the Spider-Man spin-off film.

It's more a two-hour prelude to a post-credit scene, which happens to be one of the most sloppily written teases ever committed to screen. "I'm not sure it's even meant to function as a film in the traditional sense. "Perhaps the biggest issue with Morbius is that it feels inconsequential.

Matt Smith co-stars as Morbius' friend Milo, while Adria Arjona is Dr. Martine Bancroft, Jared Harris is Dr. Nicholas, Tyrese Gibson is FBI Agent Simon Stroud, ...

What Morbius will do in the long-term, though, will likely be answered in a sequel. In his own universe, Toomes was a villain – but in the Sony-verse, he could be seeking a fresh start. That's most likely because it references the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home – where Spider-Man was accused of killing Mysterio – and Morbius does not actually take place in the MCU (perhaps the plan changed at some stage in Morbius' development, though that remains unclear). How exactly he ended up in the Sony-verse is a mystery. Agents Stroud and Rodriguez hunt Morbius throughout the film, and are on the scene of his final showdown with Milo. When Morbius bursts out from underground and flies away in a swarm of bats, they stand and watch – and that's the last we see of them. Morbius believes the anti-coagulants in vampire bat saliva could help cure the disease – but ends up turning himself into a vampire instead. Milo believes Nicholas always favored Morbius and says that Nicholas pitied him before – and is repulsed by him now. As for why Milo has no problem with killing people, he says that, for their whole lives, he and Morbius have lived with death – so others can know how it feels for a change. During the final fight with Milo, a swarm of bats comes to Morbius' aid and holds Milo down. Both Milo and Morbius suffer from a rare blood disease, though it's given no name in the movie. With the help of Dr. Martine Bancroft, Morbius creates an antibody – one that will kill any "vampire" he injects with it. We've rounded up every single question you could possibly have on the Morbius ending, from what Vulture is doing in the Sony-verse to the fate of the main characters.

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The goal of thrusting Morbius into the spotlight should be to tell a worthwhile story that will have us invested in his fate and explain why there’s a reason for this feature’s existence (in addition to capitalistic exploitation of a fandom, of course). For director Daniel Espinosa (Safe House, Life), regrettably, there is nothing on paper that distinguishes this character from the many supervillains who have also fallen victim to lab tragedies. On the other hand, this movie hates levity, even opting to delete a joke that was in the trailer. In fact, this origin story of Spider-Man nemesis Dr Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) – a sickly scientist who turns into a vampire after a medical experiment gone wrong – makes its case as the single worst film in comic book film history, striving for the number one spot with its active battle against entertainment values.

MORBIUS (15, 104 mins) Horror/Action/Fantasy/Romance. Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, Tyrese Gibson.

He must hunt human prey and drink blood to feed the darkness that has been unleashed. His metamorphosis into a crazed predator with echolocation crescendos with slow motion Matrix-style bullet dodging and brief flashes of moribund humour. Based on the Marvel Comics anti-hero created by Roy Thomas, Daniel Espinosa's horror unfolds in juddering, desperate spurts like a freshly severed artery.

There is too much Jared and not enough Matt. Film Title: Morbius. Director: Daniel Espinosa. Starring: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, ...

Most ruinously, there is too much Jared and not enough Matt. No harm to Leto, who wears less makeup as a vampire here than he did as a human in House of Gucci, but he appears to be taking the silly role absurdly seriously. Adria Arjona, apparent romantic interest, looks to be going through some of the traumas that Geena Davis’s character endured in The Fly, but the scenes are so sketchy it is hard to say for sure. Where to begin with the issues? Neither of the first two Venom films were any good, but they both made mighty fortunes. After an odd prologue that fits awkwardly into the main body, the film takes us back to two ill young boys in a Greek hospital. Now, if I have learnt anything from Frankenstein, The Fly, The Island of Dr Moreau and Re-Animator it is that nothing ever goes wrong when a man in a white coat ventures this sort of hubris.

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Morbius itself is an exercise in this gory process: it takes the superhero format and sucks the life from it, reducing the usual expansive Marvel feast to the thinnest of gruel. He is ostensibly the hero, a good natured, resourceful scientist who loves to help children, but with bat venom in his veins, his personality is distorted. Espinosa directs it as a Gothic horror movie, one that draws on everything from Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde to the B-cinema of Roger Corman and even werewolf movies in which characters undergo similarly feral metamorphoses. The doctor isn’t trying to save the world: his main battle here is with his own darker nature. But his performance is the most intriguing aspect in an otherwise uneven film. Something is missing from Dr Michael Morbius’ DNA which has left him on crutches and in need of constant blood transfusions.

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Jared Leto is the scientist-turned-anti-hero in a diabolical shambles that suggests carnage in the edit suite.

New Sony/Marvel movie Morbius gives a new origin story to Spider-Man villain Morbius: The Living Vampire, who must face a former friend and his own ...

Assuming they are villains, and not just trying to “do some good” this time? Back in 2014, Sony had plans to spin the Six off from Andrew Garfield’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, only to shelve the idea when they teamed up with Marvel a couple of years later instead. Still, it’s a little unclear what the function of this group would be. We rejoin Jared Leto’s Michael Morbius as he drives in the desert, stopping at a specified location. As this happens, we see the familiar figure of Michael Keaton’s Adrian Toomes/Vulture, the villain of Spider-Man: Homecoming, appear inside the prison. Anyway, this segment concludes with Toomes presumably being released from prison, with his next steps chronicled in the subsequent post-credit scene.

Thin, disposable secondary characters and a lack of laughs render this Spider-Man villain sub-franchise a sketchy mess.

With extremely thin, disposable secondary characters and repetitive bouts of snarling pixel clouds tearing into each other, Morbius is a sketchy mess – bereft of the humour and oddness that partially redeems Tom Hardy’s Venom outings. By 1971, Marvel were already recycling: Jared Leto’s Morbius is easy to confuse with Curt Connors (who first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #6, November 1963 and was played by Rhys Ifans in The Amazing Spider-Man and Spider Man No Way Home) a character who regrows his missing arm thanks to an experimental serum derived from lizards. Instead, Morbius follows the Venom films – Sony’s other stab at giving a Spider-Man villain his own sub-franchise – by hurrying through an origin story.

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We’ll have to see what happens if Morbius underperforms, although at least one more Arad-produced movie, Kraven the Hunter, is already in production and an inexplicable Madame Web film is on the way as well. Arad certainly deserves credit for his role in saving Marvel Comics and launching what became Marvel Studios in the period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. The implication is that this Toomes suddenly was transported from his cell in a different universe–presumably the MCU universe where was jailed at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming–and ended up here. Suddenly out of the sky appears Toomes in his full Vulture regalia (or at least a CG version of him since we never see Keaton’s face again). The Vulture expresses something to the effect that he doesn’t know how he got here, but he thinks it “has something do with Spider-Man.” A scene showing Morbius walking past a Spider-Man poster on a city wall–also seen in trailers–is also missing from the movie. In Morbius, Dr. Michael Morbius ( Jared Leto) is experimenting with a serum derived from vampire bat DNA to cure a rare blood disorder that he suffers from.

The violet cracks in the sky symbolize the multiverse breaking, and with this credits scene, the implication is that Morbius (Jared Leto) and his world (which ...

Yet with this bombshell cameo (which was teased in one of its trailers), it can’t help but feel a little like the credits scene and potential sequel are more important than anything that just happened in Morbius. All this universe-colliding stuff is a big deal because it’s how Marvel and Sony have addressed the film rights of various characters. The second scene picks up where the first one leaves off, and features Morbius meeting up with a free Toomes. The Vulture wants to recruit our living vampire into some kind of supervillain posse. Morbius has two credits scenes, one for every year that the movie was delayed! Morbius’s first credits scene features the purple time rift seen in Spider-Man: No Way Home. In that movie, Doctor Strange has to put the world back together to stop the multiverse from collapsing on itself. But since Toomes hasn’t been convicted of any crimes in Morbius’s world, we see him exonerated and freed.

An ailing biochemist aims to cure himself of a debilitating illness, but ends up infecting himself with vampirism in the Marvel movie Morbius.

Not unlike Venom, Morbius was a bad guy when he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man comics, back in the 1970's. He needs to be at least an anti-hero now, if a franchise is to be built around him. At one point, Morbius overhears some counterfeiters passing fake $100s, and commandeers their printing press to make what appears to be an artificial-blood machine — because the technologies for fake-bills and fake-blood match up? But Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is looking to capture smaller game as he approaches the mouth of a cave, hobbling with difficulty on two crutch-like canes. Except this is a man whose hair has the kind of sheen that comes from brushing it three times a day. Born with a rare blood disease, Michael Morbius has spent his entire life working on two things — a cure, and origami paper-folding. His name is Morbius, and while watching his origin story, you may get the feeling that somewhere in the cinematic multiverse, wires got crossed.

Jared Leto's one-note vampire is possibly the least helpful superhero we've seen yet.

Morbius is reflective of Leto’s much more self-serious side, and the film is thuddingly tedious as a result. The only time Morbius seems fleetingly interested in working for the public good is when he stalks some shady-seeming gangsters to a lab where they’re making counterfeit goods—but he then reveals that he only wants to hijack their lab to carry out more of his experiments. When Leto is at his most maximalist, it helps if the movie matches him—the willingness to embrace exaggerated silliness is what made House of Gucci such an enjoyable ride, with Leto hamming it up right in the middle of all the chaos. Most crucially, his best friend, Milo (Matt Smith), who has the same blood condition, gets his hands on the serum and becomes a vampire as well, embracing his villainy and delivering many a florid monologue about how great it is to suck people’s blood out of their neck. Leto, an actor who often makes a public meal of how committed he is to his roles, does his best to sell the monster within through lots of anguished screaming. Griping about a trend that’s just a Hollywood fact of life is almost trite, but in the case of Morbius, the dark and gloomy Jared Leto vehicle finally making it to theaters this weekend, I have to register a complaint.

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Jared Leto plays the Marvel antihero 'Morbius' in this poorly-made action thriller.

And “Morbius” might be the worst-looking of them all. The bloody incident grabs the attention of detectives Stroud (Tyrese Gibson) and Rodriguez (Al Madrigal), who come to suspect Morbius in a string of murders. It’s a shocking problem in “Morbius” considering editor Pietro Scalia’s past award-winning work on “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down.” Why is Espinosa so afraid to show blood or gore? Smith rises above the film, moving with a lanky, unencumbered energy not unlike his “Doctor Who” days. Unlike “Blade Runner 2049” or “The Little Things,” where he could float through scenes as a blank villain, Morbius requires pathos, a layer deeply lacking in Leto’s range. The scrubbing in “Morbius” starts with a flashback to 25 years earlier. Daniel Espinosa’s “Morbius,” a misbegotten, artistically bankrupt bid by writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to fuse a gothic horror edge to the MCU, is the nadir of comic book cinema. The slow motion and jump scare editing, mixed with plumes of black smoke, aims for frights, but only manages to stitch together a smattering of incomprehensible images. Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, the titular villain, sometimes anti-hero, sprung from the pages of “The Amazing Spider-Man” in 1971, imbuing the webslinger’s universe with a supernatural grittiness. Espinosa, unfortunately, is so beholden to the timbre of mass entertainment, he struggles to provide his film with the necessary bloodlust, brutality and frights to rise above a snore. So as Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), a brooding biochemist living with a blood disease, sways with the assistance of crutches getting off the helicopter, the mystery of his story is moot. It’s no secret the desperate lengths contemporary movies, especially of the comic book variety, rely on VFX to do a film’s emotional heavy lifting.

It is, in fact, the worst of the year so far. It has no redeeming qualities, from Jared Leto's monotonous, derivitive Blade rip-off — ah yes, another ...

It is, in fact, the worst of the year so far. Now, characters from each distinct brand can come into conflict — a new variant of Iron Man, for example, or Patrick Stewart’s twice-dead Professor X, or indeed three Spider-Men — the toys being mashed together by conglomerates desperate to milk as much as they can from an insatiable audience of foamy-mouthed fanboys. It has no redeeming qualities, from Jared Leto's monotonous, derivitive Blade rip-off — ah yes, another embarassing performance from the prince of prosthetics — to its absolute lack of formal imagination, inventive plotting, or technical acuity.

Morbius is certainly set within the Sony Spider-Man universe as there are nods to Venom and notable villains, including Chameleon and Rhino. These generally ...

Of course, that doesn't rule out a crossover in future, but it doesn't happen in this movie. Spider-Man doesn't show up in any way in the new movie, and that includes the long-shot of Andrew Garfield or Tobey Maguire appearances. This sets up the second credit scene where Vulture meets with Morbius and name-checks the webslinger.

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There will be a lot of debate over where “Morbius” sits in the Marvel canon. He just has to ignore moments like when Morbius is chained to a desk in a police department’s interview room and says: “I’m starting to get hungry and you don’t want to see me when I’m hungry.” What's astonishing is that despite a whole movie, we know very little about Morbius. He is so principled that he turns down a Nobel Prize but perfectly OK slaughtering henchmen. The filmmakers — director Daniel Espinosa, hobbled by a meandering script from Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless — simply do not know what to do with this creature once they've given us his backstory. He also seems to be able to turn into a bat and fly but why he hasn't flapped his way out of this film is unfathomable. So confused is the film's execution that it more closely resembles a horror movie than a superhero flick.

Morbius tries to set up a cinematic universe to rival the MCU, alienating the audience in the process.

Considering how tightly controlled and perfectly calibrated the MCU is, it’s pretty astonishing that Sony has managed to hijack it for its own ends, confusing fans of both franchises. Morbius also has no reason to dislike Spider-Man - in fact, it’s not clear if Spidey even exists in this universe. The second scene sees Morbius driving down a highway, then getting out of his car to meet Vulture, who is now equipped with his high-tech jetpack suit.

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Special mention has to be made of David Fear's review in Rolling Stone, which said: "Is Morbius the worst Marvel movie ever made? However, they also go on to describe the film as "a movie that feels like one big windup for something else, even if we walk out feeling we've already seen plenty." Giving the film just one star, he described it as "the cinematic equivalent of Murphy's Law" and an "appalling superhero snooze-fest."

Dir: Daniel Espinosa. Starring: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, Tyrese Gibson. Cert 15, 104 minutes.

All in all, Morbius is a film that’s more frustrating than it is gleefully inept. It’s more a two-hour prelude to a post-credit scene, which happens to be one of the most sloppily written teases ever committed to screen. It’s humourless in places where it should be goofy, if only to acknowledge how much Morbius’s wrinkly, snarly vampire face makes him look like he’s about to be staked by Buffy. But, conversely, it also drops humour into all the wrong places – “You don’t want to see me when I’m hungry,” Morbius says during a police interrogation, to zero applause. Somewhere in the middle of Morbius, a film about a Spider-Man villain that does not feature Spider-Man, I was ready to tap out. Even the film’s given origin story could have neatly fit into the sidelines of a Spider-Man outing: Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), the inventor of artificial blood and a man so humble he turned down the Nobel Peace Prize, lives with a condition that requires three blood transfusions a day to survive. Morbius follows two Venom films, and there is a single, oblique reference to that character in this one.

Morbius, Sony's latest Marvel film based on a Spider-Man villain following Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, does very little to mimic Tom Hardy's ...

(If it wasn’t, someone probably would have asked him to say “human/bat chimera” out loud, and re-consider whether the experiment was a good idea.) With the help of colleague and love interest Dr. Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona), Morbius “accidentally” turns himself into a Living Vampire — basically a regular vampire, but without the traditional church allergies. Morbius is what happens when there’s a studio desire for another Venom, but without much thought as to how Venom connected with anyone. Dr. Morbius, we’re told, is one of the world’s foremost scientific minds, having developed a blue-tinged artificial blood that has “saved more lives than penicillin.” Yet he still has not found a cure for his disease — something he desperately wants, not for his own sake, but for his childhood friend Milo (Matt Smith), who suffers from the same disease and funds Morbius’ research through his wealth. Milo dances and preens every moment he’s on camera, in a performance that’s only marred by the CGI makeover both leads get when they vamp up, a choice that doesn’t seem much better than Buffy the Vampire Slayer-style prosthetics. Morbius is the kind of magic you’d want to keep a lid on: a two-hour spell that makes viewers forget it actually stars Jared Leto, one of the few men alive in danger of being too interesting, thanks to his widely publicized overcommitment to Method acting and a public persona that frequently evokes “benevolent cult leader” vibes. And a movie that apes Venom without an unpredictable performance at the center, it turns out, is a pretty lousy time.

An analysis of the two mid-credits (or post-credits) scenes in Marvel and Sony's latest Spider-Man spinoff Morbius, starring Jared Leto as Dr. Michael ...

All we can say for sure is that nothing in either mid-credits scene contradicts No Way Home, and there is clearly more to this story and the rules of the multiverse that we’ll hopefully see explained across future films. No Way Home’s post-credits scene may have already hinted at a flaw in the spell, given that when Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is transported back to his world, a piece of the Venom symbiote gets left behind in the MCU. So clearly, not every living creature who was aware that Peter Parker is Spider-Man got sent back. The question of how Toomes was transported from the MCU to the SSU has puzzled some viewers, since Strange’s spell at the end of No Way Home supposedly only reverted the villains who had breached the multiverse back to their original dimensions. We just don’t know yet; as Strange tells Peter (Tom Holland) in No Way Home, “The multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.” The same goes for Marvel’s rules on magic. I don’t know how I got here … something to do with Spider-Man. I’m thinking of putting a team together. The anchor reports that a hearing has been set, which “could likely lead to his immediate release.” Toomes is then escorted into a police car by several officers.

“It's a film without mortal danger, originality, narrative coherence, compelling characters, or a single presentation, even a vaguely human,” said Kevin Maher ...

So it looks like the movie will pay off. There is also a comment on the humor in the movie, which is something poisonThe films are still held in the eyes of many critics. At the time of writing, the third movie in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is only 21 percent After 73 reviews, it has an average rating of 4.10/10.

Many reviews noted that the film did not live up to the promises made in the trailer for a horror/thriller superhero film with ties to other Spider-Man films.

In the film, Leto portrays biochemist Michael Morbius, who is trying to cure himself of a rare blood disease. As Adam Graham of the Detroit News notes in his review of the film, the studio's desire to expand its Spider-Man lore is understandable. Graham is not alone in his assessment of the Jared Leto-led film.

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The public didn’t know the multiverse stuff was directly connected to Spider-Man, so why would Toomes know that? Originally, it seems as if Toomes and Morbius’ interaction was supposed to take place in a different context, which is why some of the lines from the trailer did not make it into the final film. A main problem with the way things were changed was that because everything got carved up and was forced to integrate the events of No Way Home means that almost nothing about it makes sense. It seems the very, very large amount of delays which pushed Morbius to be released after Spider-Man: No Way Home is what caused these final scenes to be so seemingly random. It’s more like they stole Toomes from the MCU rather than added Morbius to the MCU, which was more the original implication. All of this seems…pretty poorly mapped out at the moment, including Toomes’ clumsy inclusion here in the post-credits sequence which was advertised as a main selling point of the movie in order to generate “oh hey Morbius is connected to the MCU!” buzz, which seems pretty misleading now.

Jared Leto as the character Morbius in a chemistry lab. Jared Leto is a vampire in STEM, in Morbius. Courtesy of Sony. Over the last ...

Primed by the culmination of two years of Morbius trailers or spending the better part of an hour and a half watching Jared Leto slurp down blood bags like a college freshman, I could not believe Morbius was really all wrapping up like this. It dawned on me that there’s probably going to be a sequel, or some tie-in; that this horrendous thing was maybe just really the beginning. The five minutes or so in which this all happens borders on psychotic; I found myself hollering an obscene and inhuman hoot — a gurgling death rattle from the last vestiges of my sanity. Michael Morbius is a genius doctor who has assembled a team of unnamed characters to travel, by helicopter, to Costa Rica’s Cerro de la Muerte, which translates into English as “The Mountain of Death.” We do not get much more information on how much killing the mountain has done. A lot of vampire tales complicate the problem of taking on a fairly reprehensible form of being by ensuring their bloodsuckers are intoxicatingly charismatic. Compared to the great lengths that Morbius went to to reach Costa Rica’s Cerro de la Muerte, a jaunty sprint to the waters just beyond Fire Island seems a little silly, comical even. Morbius’s gimmick is that Morbius is now essentially a vampire, but without any tether to existing mythology. The international waters in question end up being a Panamanian cargo ship 12 miles off the coast of Long Island. If Morbius was a person you were supposed to have a date with who kept postponing, at this point you’d both agree to just forget the other existed. However, we do learn that Morbius is trying to capture a bunch of vampire bats to take home with him to New York City. He slices his palm open, blood drips down, and thousands of bats come shooting out of the cave trying to lick his pale little hand. This state of eternally “coming soon” was due to the numerous delays the movie has faced. Over the last two very long years, nothing has been made more clear than the fact that the world we live in is devoid of constants.

In what Hollywood hopes is a good start to what will be a strong month at the box office, Sony's Morbius earned $5.7 million in Thursday previews.

The film was almost certainly never going to open like Venom as Eddie Brock is more popular than Michael Morbius and Tom Hardy is more popular than Jared Leto. But since Sony spent 17% less on Morbius than on Venom, that’s okay. Running the math, a $5.7 million Thursday gross means that if Morbius plays like Venom: Let There Be Carnage ($90 million from an $11.6 million Thursday) then it’ll score $45 million for the weekend. Yes, the reviews were (expectedly) terrible with 15% rotten and 3.4/10 on Rotten Tomatoes. I’m on a family road trip, so I haven’t seen it yet, but the word seems to imply that the film is what we all expected/feared Venom would be in late 2018.